Example sentences of "[adj] who [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we progress up the scale of profit-taking , we find others who sell at small craft fairs and those who find an outlet through local shops , until we come at last to the favoured few who sell at the prestigious crafts fairs which Hugh prefers . |
| 2 | He still encountered in his daily life a few who looked past the empty gaud that distracted lesser minds and longed for a revelation that would burn the tinsel away , an Apocalypse that would show the Fifth the glories it yearned for in its sleep . |
| 3 | The rest had left finance , bar a few who retrained for the burgeoning futures markets in right-to-pollute certificates and manual-job options . |
| 4 | As was pointed out in the previous chapter , the plan of the Victorian house and the Victorian city have this in common : that both are so designed that the few who live on the privileged side of the divide need know nothing of the many who are crowded beyond it into a fraction of the space . |
| 5 | ENGLAND 's players endured a nine-hour delay on their overnight trip back from Pakistan on Saturday , but it proved no handicap to the 10 who played in the Nationwide Anglia English Cup , yesterday . |
| 6 | On the Ghosh approach an accused who steals from the rich to give to the poor must be acquitted if he believes that reasonable people would regard what he did as not dishonest . |
| 7 | He went on to briefly visit the memorial to the 21 who died outside the vast shipyards where Lech Walesa , now the country 's president , made his name as head of Solidarity . |
| 8 | The farm is one of the best in the county and its steading high above Dunure is a well-known landmark for all who sail on the lower reaches of the Clyde estuary . |
| 9 | Many children , it was said , ‘ actually begin their downward course of crime by reason of the burglary and pickpocket scenes they have witnessed ’ : ‘ All who care for the moral well-being and education of the child will set their faces like flint against this new form of excitement . ’ |
| 10 | A calculation can be made to pass such costs ( or benefits ) onto all who enter into the forward contracts by an adjustment to the prevailing spot rate to give a forward rate . |
| 11 | Behind the scenes , many who sit on the Conservative Benches are betraying their concern even before the Bill has received its Second Reading . |
| 12 | The point is echoed by McKendrick who argues that as well as " the many who suffered during the late eighteenth century , and even more in the later stages of industrialisation , there were those who gained " . |
| 13 | On the whole , however , it was the powerful who travelled in the Carolingian world , following the economic and political requirements of the seasons : winter would be spent at a home-base , whereas in summer men took the road when summoned to assembly and/or campaign . |
| 14 | The pictures were assembled during the 1900s by Sir John Leicester , a close friend of George IV who went on the Grand Tour but who , unlike many of his contemporaries , remained faithful to living British artists . |
| 15 | THOSE who yearn for the smiling helpfulness of American skiing , but whose credit limits do not permit access to it , can console themselves with the news that the French resort of Les Arcs is launching a campaign to distinguish itself from competing resorts by encouraging staff to be unfailingly polite . |
| 16 | This competition made conflicts more likely and meant that in any conflict rival groups of Indians would be involved ; those who traded with the French would support them , and their enemies would support the British , so that Indian skirmishing inland played a larger part in the fighting of the 1740s than in previous wars . |
| 17 | Among those who featured round the top ten were ‘ NIB All Sorts ’ led by Joe McGovern . |
| 18 | Although space is at a premium in NOTTINGHAM GRADUATE , we like to find a corner for those who studied at the former University College . |
| 19 | This is perhaps not surprising : their preference for home care at the first interview indicates that they have a stronger commitment to looking after the dementia sufferer than those who said in the first interview that they would prefer institutional care . |
| 20 | A system of ‘ National Assistance ’ was to be maintained for all those who fell outside the other benefits to be paid for by the national exchequer . |
| 21 | Go into the s transept with its rose window of the Last Judgement by Max Švabinský , 1935–8 , the Emblem of Prague City in metalwork by Karel Štipl , 1946 , a statue of Christ by Čeněk Vosmík , a fine memorial of 1921 dedicated to those who fell in the Great War by K. Pokorný , and the statue of St Wenceslas by Karel Dvořák , 1922 . |
| 22 | Today those who fought and those who fell in the Chinese onslaught were remembered . |
| 23 | There was no difference in ear scores among the latter subjects between those who wrote with the hooked and upright postures . |
| 24 | Among left handed writers defects of verbal comprehension were more frequent than among those who wrote with the right hand . |
| 25 | Those who get to the top use interpersonal skills rather than force . |
| 26 | Will the Secretary of State take it from me that the people of Northern Ireland will appreciate his expressions of sympathy and those of the hon. Member for Greenock and Port Glasgow ( Dr. Godman ) , directed to those who suffered in the terrible massacre that took place last night and to the relatives of the person who was murdered this morning ? |
| 27 | What happens to those who step outside the predictable patterns and regularities ? |
| 28 | That should go to the rescue workers who took great risks to bring out survivors , the skill of the medical teams and the love expressed by those who cared for the injured and bereaved . |
| 29 | Next morning , 19th July , all is quiet , and after breakfast I decided to pay a visit to the other Commando units ; 4 Commando and 3 Commando , lots of new faces , not many of those who landed on the 6th June are left . |
| 30 | Over half the respondents acknowledged that dreams could foretell the future , and among those who believed in the literal truth of the accounts of dreaming in the New Testament , this proportion was much higher . |